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Jeremiah 17
We have come to (arguably) the most famous verse in all of Jeremiah: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?”Jeremiah 17:9 ESV The “heart” is the word leb in Hebrew. We westerners like to be all analytical and divide the inner man into neat boxes of mind/intellect, will,…
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Jeremiah 15-16
Jeremiah is still a young man. But he doesn’t hang out with other young people. Whatever the ancient equivalent of sitting by yourself at the lunch table was, that’s his lot. 😐 Maybe the stinky underwear had something to do with it. Personal hygiene goes a long way in making friends, ya know. Well….Can’t argue…
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Jeremiah 13-14
The Ruined Loincloth Prophecy Or The Sign of the Dirty Underwear 🩲 😆 That sounds like the title of a Captain Underpants book. Nevertheless, it is an appropriate title for this one-of-a-kind sign prophecy. It’s funny to me that King David dancing before the LORD in his linen ephod (a tunic, NOT a loincloth) gets…
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Jeremiah 11-12
I’m gonna say it. There are a lot of really stupid people in the world. Here’s the proof. 🤨 Really? Surely no one is that stu… 🔥💥 Oh, no, I assure you, they are. Let me show you my favorite one… 😲😳🤢 There was a warning label on the Covenant God made with Israel. “But…
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Jeremiah 10
Idols vs Yahweh You may have heard someone say that Jeremiah 10:3-4 is about Christmas Trees. 🎄 That only works if you rip those verses out of context and ignore the rest of the chapter. Now, if you burn incense to your Christmas Tree and bow down and worship it, then this text totally applies.…
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Jeremiah 9
Get your Kleenexes. There’s a lot of crying in this chapter. Jeremiah is known as “The Weeping Prophet.” The opening 2 verses of chapter 9 are probably part of the close of chapter 8. Remember that there are no chapter breaks in the original texts and some of them are stuck in some rather unfortunate…
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Jeremiah 8
The schedule only has Jeremiah 8 for today, but I think it’ll be easier for me to combine 8 & 9 than 9 & 10. So I’m releasing the post for chapter 9 today (separately) as well as 8. Hopefully you’ll have time for both. If not, then you can pick it up tomorrow. BONES…
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Jeremiah 6-7
It’s easy to get lost in all the doom and gloom of these verses. Let me see if I can help us zoom out and see the main points. JUDGEMENT IS COMING & WHY (ch. 6) “Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her; they shall pitch their tents around her; they shall pasture, each…
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Jeremiah 5
“Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, that I may pardon her.”Jeremiah 5:1 ESV “Then he said, ‘Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this…
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Jeremiah 3-4
If I had to summarize these two chapters in 5 words… “Baby, won’t you come back?” Judah (and Israel) is compared to a woman who left her husband to become a prostitute. The language is uncomfortable, but then again, so is sin. Judah SAW what happened to the northern kingdom of Israel: And the astonishing…
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Jeremiah 2
This chapter contains a cornerstone text for me. And instead of commenting on the whole of the chapter, I’m going to go straight for those cornerstone verses. I used to teach Theology of Worship, a freshman level course at the Bible College where I graduated. I would get to Jeremiah chapter 2 very early on…
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Jeremiah 1
Welcome to the longest book in the Bible. 😐 I thought that was Psalms. In English, Psalms is the longest. But in Hebrew, it’s Jeremiah, followed by Genesis, then Psalms. As far as individual men through whom God spoke the most, Jeremiah is up there with Moses, Paul, Isaiah, Ezekiel and David. It’s interesting that…
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